{"id":9411,"date":"2019-01-20T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:57:01","slug":"concerns-over-meks-threat-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/9411","title":{"rendered":"Concerns over MEK\u2019s threat in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the relocation of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO\/ MEK\/ PMOI\/ the Cult of Rajavi) in Albania Europe, concerns over the presence of a formerly terrorist designated group with cult-like attitudes has been increasing. From time to time, News outlets, TV channels shed light upon the matter of the MKO.
\nThe most recent reference to the case of the MKO was posted on the Swiss newspaper New Zurich Zeitung.<\/a> The author of the article Ulrich von Schwerin investigates the support by the side of US leading politicians for the MKO despite the fact that<\/p>\n

\u201cthe history of the Iranian People\u2019s Mujahedeen is bloody, turbulent and tragic, their method is controversial and their ideology is full of contradictions\u201d. [1]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He finds the American support for the group as a contradiction too because it is the most hated opposition group among Iranian public.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Iranian opposition group polarizes like them, no one has so many critics, but no such prominent supporters,\u201d he states. The contradiction leads him to wonder what role the MKO plays in Washington\u2019s Iran policy is, and if it really is the right ally for the US government. [2]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To find out the answer, the author interviews or cites from several Western politicians, scholars and journalists including German Green MP Omid Nouripour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe People\u2019s Mujahedeen have suffered an incredible amount of suffering, but also caused a lot of damage,\u201d Nouripour says. He strongly advised against supporting the group because there are \u201chuge questions about its ideology, its structure and its legitimacy\u201d and because of its past it has little support in Iran. [3]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thus, the author of NZZ concludes,<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many, their commitment to democracy and human rights seems untrustworthy after alliance with Saddam Hussein. And even the pronounced leadership cult around the Rajavis makes many doubt on their democratic views.\u201d [4]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ulrich von Schwerin closes his article citing Daniel Benjamin of the New York Times who sees MKO\u2019s multi-million dollar campaign to buy US politicians\u2019 support as the main motivation for advocating the formerly terrorist designated group that has the blood of six US citizens in hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something when someone offers you $ 15,000 to $ 20,000 on the phone to join a panel discussion,\u201d Benjamin says. \u201cThis does not happen to former diplomats every day.\u201d [5]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Besides NZZ, there has been a post on the controversial presence of the MKO in Italian news website \u201cGli Occhi Della Guerra\u201d<\/a> based in Rome in the early January. The writer, Giovanni Giacalone focuses on the expulsion of the two Iranian diplomats by the Albanian government based on a false flag operation plotted by the Israeli Intelligence Mossad and the MKO.<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently, the clash between the Shiite axis and the Salafite\/Wahhabi galaxy, as well as between Israel and Iran, is now also taking place on Albanian soil and the MEK may play a major role in this scenario,\u201d Giacalone suggests. \u201cHowever, the Mojahedin base on the Adriatic threatens to increase destabilization in the Balkans, an area already characterized by strong ethnic-religious and political tensions, all to the detriment of Europe. Albania for its part is reconfirmed as among the most loyal allies of the United States and Israel.\u201d [6]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The threat of the MKO is persistently confirmed by the Albanian-Canadian historian Dr. Olsi Jazexhi who was interviewed by the Balkan Post, last week. Albania is deriving no benefit but only headaches, scandals and bad name for what it is doing with MEK,\u201d Dr Jazexhi tells Navid Nasr of the Balkan Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe media in the Balkans and the region, from Serbia, to Greece, Macedonia and Italy, have reported with great concern the coming of MEK to Albania. Europeans are also upset with what Albania is doing.\u201d [7]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He believes that the only people who are benefiting from hosting the MEK are organized criminals and some Albanian politicians who run gangs of drug dealers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Albanian politicians, like Prime Minister Edi Rama, Minister of Diaspora Pandeli Majko etc are building personal relationships with American politicians like John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, Patrick Kennedy etc, who are opening their doors to Washington. In their yearly \u201cFree Iran\u201d meetings that MEK organizes in Paris, Maryam Rajavi is enabling many corrupt Albanian politicians to meet major European and American neocon politicians,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

he says.
\nHe points out the destructive role of the MKO in the international relations particularly in the Europe considering the MKO as destructive as other Jihadist extremists like ISIS.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe European Union, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which are not happy with what Albania is doing, must be asked to raise their voice against the MEK\u2019s activities,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

he suggests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese three organizations must extend their deradicalization programs over to the MEK and must not use their programs only against Albanian Muslims who want to do Jihad in Syria.\u201d
\n\u201cEU bodies must ask Albania and the Americans to come out with an action plan to deradicalize MEK in the same way that they are jailing and deradicalizing ISIS sympathizers. France must do the same,\u201d he continues. \u201cThey must not allow Maryam Rajavi to use French soil as a base for violent Jihadi propaganda against Iran or any other country. The Europeans must ask MEK to open its camp, deradicalize its members, stop its Jihadi propaganda and its members must be allowed to marry, find jobs and start free civilian lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By Mazda Parsi<\/strong><\/p>\n

References:<\/strong>
\n[1]Ulrich von Schwerin, Die Volksmujahedin sind fragw\u00fcrdige Verb\u00fcndete Washingtons in Iran, nzz.ch,January14,2019
\n[2]ibid
\n[3]ibid
\n[4]ibid
\n[5]ibid
\n[6]Giacalone,Giovanni,Gli iraniani erano davvero pronti
\na fare un attentato in Europa? ,Gli Occhi Della Guerra, January6, 2019
\n[7]ibid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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